Crossword-Solution: SCISSOR 7 letters, 53 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Mine, said the stone, mine is the hour. I crush the scissors, such is my power. Stronger than wishes, my power, alone. Mine, said the paper, mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds, reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper. Mine, said the scissors, mine all the knivesgashing through paper’sethereal lives; nothing’s so properas tattering wishes. As stone crushes scissors, as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper, all end alone. So heap up your pap…

I held the cardboard and felt its scissor-cut edge. And for the first time I understood the shape of my grief. I could feel exactly how big it was. It was the strangest feeling, like holding something the size of a mountain in my arms. You have to be patient, he had said. If you want to see something very much, you just have to be patient and wait. There was no patience in my waiting, but time had passed all the same, and worked its careful magic. And now, holding the card in…

Studying him then, it was hard not to notice how handsome Luke was, a fact that that most of the girls hadn't missed either. To their delight, his almost OCD obsession with having his hair no more than several inches long meant he regularly asked them to trim his sandy brown hair with nail scissors. An honour they held rock, paper, scissor tournaments for. It was all very serious stuff.